{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Frontrun Blog", "home_page_url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/", "feed_url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/feed.json", "description": "Frontrun (https://frontrun.vc) tracks the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors on X and flags the startups several of them converge on - usually before any announced round. Counts and company identities are public; which investors are behind them is in the product.", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/cb-insights-alternatives/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/cb-insights-alternatives/", "title": "cb insights alternatives (july 2026) - 4 tools compared by job", "summary": "cb insights is enterprise market intelligence. here's what to use if you want early sourcing signal instead of research reports - 4 alternatives compared by job.", "content_text": "cb insights alternatives compared for july 2026 - frontrun for pre-round sourcing signal from $49/mo, harmonic for coverage, pitchbook and crunchbase for deal records. honest, with dated receipts.", "date_published": "2026-07-23T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/best-ai-deal-sourcing-tools-2026/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/best-ai-deal-sourcing-tools-2026/", "title": "best ai deal sourcing tools for vcs (july 2026) - 6 compared", "summary": "frontrun, harmonic, inven, pitchbook, crunchbase, cb insights - 6 ai deal sourcing tools honestly compared, by job.", "content_text": "best ai deal sourcing tools compared for july 2026 - frontrun, harmonic, inven, pitchbook, crunchbase, cb insights - by signal type, price, and agent-readiness. with dated receipts.", "date_published": "2026-07-23T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/this-week-in-signal-2026-07-08/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/this-week-in-signal-2026-07-08/", "title": "this week in signal - 15 startups top investors just started following (jul 8, 2026)", "summary": "the 15 companies tier-1 investors quietly started following this week - most still under 500 followers, none with a round on record yet.", "content_text": "the companies that gained the most tracked venture-investor follows this week, before any announced round. ai, infrastructure and prediction markets led. live data from frontrun.", "date_published": "2026-07-08T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "data" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/crunchbase-alternatives/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/crunchbase-alternatives/", "title": "crunchbase alternatives for finding startups early (2026)", "summary": "crunchbase shows you announced rounds. here's what to use when you want to find companies before the announcement.", "content_text": "looking for a crunchbase alternative? honest breakdown by job - frontrun for pre-round signal at $99/mo, harmonic for coverage, pitchbook for records, plus when crunchbase is still fine.", "date_published": "2026-07-08T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/what-is-deal-flow/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/what-is-deal-flow/", "title": "what is deal flow? and how ai is changing it in 2026", "summary": "deal flow explained - and how ai agents are rewriting sourcing in 2026.", "content_text": "deal flow explained - what it is, how vcs build it, quality vs quantity, and how ai agents are rewriting sourcing in 2026. plain-english definitions with real examples.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "guide" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/robotics-startups-under-1000-followers/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/robotics-startups-under-1000-followers/", "title": "robotics startups under 1,000 followers that vcs are quietly following (2026)", "summary": "quiet robotics companies vcs are following before there is anything to demo.", "content_text": "under-the-radar robotics companies - humanoids, industrial autonomy, robot infrastructure - all under 1,000 x followers, all gaining tracked venture-investor follows. updated regularly.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "watchlist" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/pitchbook-alternatives/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/pitchbook-alternatives/", "title": "pitchbook alternatives for early-stage and crypto vcs (2026)", "summary": "records vs signal - the early-stage stack that costs less than one seat.", "content_text": "pitchbook is the system of record, not a sourcing edge. here are the alternatives early-stage and crypto investors actually use in 2026 - frontrun, harmonic, crunchbase, surf - by job.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/mcp-for-venture-capital/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/mcp-for-venture-capital/", "title": "mcp for venture capital - pipe deal flow into claude code and cursor (2026)", "summary": "what your ai assistant can do once it's connected to live deal flow - setup, tools, and the patterns that work.", "content_text": "how vcs use the model context protocol (mcp) for deal sourcing - connect live startup signal to claude code, cursor, or any agent in one command, and what tools become available.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "guide" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-we-track-1000-investor-follow-graphs/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-we-track-1000-investor-follow-graphs/", "title": "how we track 1,000+ investor follow graphs (the data story)", "summary": "the engineering and data behind the follow-graph diff - 42,000 companies, provenance included.", "content_text": "the engineering and data behind frontrun - continuously diffing the follow graphs of 1,000+ venture investors, flag provenance, junk filtering, and what 42,000 tracked companies taught us.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "guide" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-vcs-find-startups-before-they-raise/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-vcs-find-startups-before-they-raise/", "title": "how top vcs find startups before they raise (2026)", "summary": "the actual mechanics of pre-round sourcing, ranked by earliness - with dated receipts.", "content_text": "the actual mechanics of pre-round deal sourcing - follow-graph signal, warm networks, demo days, and why investor behavior on x leaks the earliest signal of all. with real dated examples.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "guide" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-to-build-an-ai-deal-flow-agent/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/how-to-build-an-ai-deal-flow-agent/", "title": "how to build an ai deal flow agent (2026 guide)", "summary": "one prompt from company discovery to enriched founders and drafted outreach - the 5-minute mcp setup.", "content_text": "step-by-step guide to building an ai deal flow agent with claude code or cursor + the frontrun mcp server. one prompt from company discovery to enriched founders and drafted outreach.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "guide" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/harmonic-alternatives/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/harmonic-alternatives/", "title": "harmonic alternatives - startup discovery tools to consider in 2026", "summary": "when the index is worth $26k/yr and when $99/mo of pre-round signal beats it.", "content_text": "looking for a harmonic.ai alternative? honest breakdown of when harmonic is worth it and what to use instead - frontrun for pre-round signal at $99/mo, inven for pe, pitchbook for record-keeping.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/ai-startups-under-1k-followers/", "url": "https://www.frontrun.vc/blog/ai-startups-under-1k-followers/", "title": "ai startups under 1,000 followers that haven't raised (2026)", "summary": "under-the-radar ai companies gaining tracked investor follows, refreshed from live data.", "content_text": "under-the-radar ai companies - agents, inference, private ai, ai-native finance - all under 1,000 x followers, all gaining tracked venture-investor follows before any announced round.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T12:00:00Z", "tags": [ "watchlist" ] } ] }